The Mysterious Fayum Portraits
• Thames & Hudson • ISBN 9780500027943
The Mysterious Fayum Portraits
• Thames & Hudson • ISBN-13 9780500027943
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ISBN 9780500027943 • Completeness 48
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These remarkable paintings take their name from a district of Roman Egypt, whose people in the first three centuries AD included Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, Syrians, Libyans, Nubians and Jews. In the Egyptian tradition, they embalmed the bodies of their dead; but then placed a painted portrait over the mummy, preserving the memory of each individual to an uncanny degree.
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